Word: queens
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...drives Barbara (Judi Dench), a drab, old teacher at a London school, to latch and leech onto a new instructor, the stunning, vulnerable, morally floundering Sheba (Cate Blanchett). Sad meets bad--or is it mad?--in this knowing, brutal comedy. Dench has maybe her best-ever movie role: a queen bee who deals in the honey of treachery...
...Holy Sepulcher winds down the Via Dolorosa, the route to Jesus' crucifixion. Nowadays, the route is packed with pushy vendors selling Holy Water, T-shirts championing the Israeli army, sandals and gaudy junk from India. Some reports claim that the site of the church was chosen after the Dowager Queen Helena had ordered the torture of a few rabbis to reveal the location of Christ's crucifixion, and that they may have deliberately given false information...
...However, Poehler claims she didn’t use any figure skating greats as inspiration for her character, Fairchild van Waldenberg.“I based my character more on, like, a great Bond villain,” she says, explaining that Waldenberg is not your typical teen skating queen.“What I did think about was prima ballerinas and ice queens, like really rich mothers. And also, like, super villains, where from the outside they look very together and inside, they’re kind of like maniacal crazy people,” she says.BEAN TOWN...
...melodies now seem stale, and serve as deterrents to new listeners he hasn’t yet won over. Songs like “Colleen” are inescapable on the new album. Boringly poppy, they are plagued by lyrics like, “Colleen / Never to be crowned queen / Never an evergreen / Floating above the scene / Still as a figurine / Expression is so serene / But I know it makes you scream.” In times past, Leo’s lyrics revealed their subtleties slowly, offering the greatest of musical rewards—that is, for those...
...being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth was way ahead of her time. "She's the model of female rule in a male-dominated society," Beem says. "Elizabeth was the master of taking female traits and turning them into successful strategies for leading. She was King and Queen at the same time. She became one of the best diplomats of the 16th century by flirting with ambassadors. She saw it as great...